Testate Amoebas: Blobby, Modest Shell Dwellers

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4 жыл бұрын

A lot of the microbes we show you are completely naked, but the test amoeba is a bit more modest.
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@rotifer 4 жыл бұрын

*Anytime me and my fellow amoeboids are taking the night on the town, we'd always dress in our finest silicate granule clusters and cuticle outer coverings. We were the show stoppers! Then of course, there was always that one streaking amoeba who stole the show, peeling off their proteinaeceous shell and waving it over their cellular membrane and getting the rest of us in trouble! Ah, Good times...*

@iloveeveryone8611 4 жыл бұрын

I love reading your comments.

@spiercephotography 4 жыл бұрын

Hope you’re staying safe and sane in these weird times, Rotifer!

@meltedyakkystick3891 4 жыл бұрын

When did the rotifer become a flapper? lol

@hunszaszist 4 жыл бұрын

"waving it over their cellular membrane" That gave me chuckels.

@iamkocka6457 4 жыл бұрын

Rotifer is the Justin Y of Journey to the Microcosmos.

@danielm.1441 4 жыл бұрын

'Internal Diatomaceous Vanity' is my new band name now.

@dexis9412 4 жыл бұрын

What’s gonna be your first song?

@hjpapow 4 жыл бұрын

... and the Silica Frustules" oh, yeah, I'd buy that ticket. 👏👏👏

@danielm.1441 4 жыл бұрын

@@dexis9412 Pseudopodia

@KaawSauce 4 жыл бұрын

Daniel M. I love everything you are.

@gabrieldamasceno3971 3 жыл бұрын

KaawSauce pause

@TheRogueWolf 4 жыл бұрын

So if I swallowed one of these amoebas and its shell went through my body unharmed, would you say I... passed the test?

@JerryMetal 4 жыл бұрын

:')

@clray123 4 жыл бұрын

If I dipped my balls in a pond with these amoebas, would you say the quantity of testes in the pond had increased?

@YbisZX 4 жыл бұрын

More likely - the test passed you...

@coldblaze100 4 жыл бұрын

winner

@yianniassimakis2285 2 жыл бұрын

This post right here officer

@chrismpbuchholz 4 жыл бұрын

From 7:45 onward I had flashbacks to agar.io .. suddenly felt a lot of empathy for that little amoeba in a world full of monsters

@rotifer 4 жыл бұрын

7:41: *Photobomb!*

@zddxddyddw 4 жыл бұрын

And then again at 9:02!

@quitlife9279 3 жыл бұрын

Do you know what the creature is?

@namanor 3 жыл бұрын

@@quitlife9279 It’s a rotifer, hence @Rotifer’s comment.

@JeweledRoseStudios 4 жыл бұрын

Heh, spotted Mr Rotifer awkwardly in frame near the end!

@revenevan11 4 жыл бұрын

*I* mourn the amoeba Hank, every single one of them!

@MRptwrench 4 жыл бұрын

The thumbnail had me thinking of the caddisfly larvae, with it's cocoon made of selected and positioned granules of sand & pebbles they have artistic little creations.

@NewMessage 4 жыл бұрын

OMG.. I think Hank just admitted that all these videos should require age verification. He might be right... I mean, I can see their pseudopods and everything!

@clray123 4 жыл бұрын

Marked as "not for kids" to comply with COPPA.

@NoobsDeSroobs 4 жыл бұрын

I would love a series where you descibe certain groupings, their traits and their differences. Then, with a bunch of examples, I can maybe finally get them into my thick head.

@adamjohnsonstudio7910 4 жыл бұрын

1:49 Fish used to simply mean "swmmer," and included crustaceans, whales, and even capybaras

@huli566 4 жыл бұрын

I am going to be a walking billboard for this channel until it gets the # of subs it deserves!

@avariceseven9443 4 жыл бұрын

This might be a solution to social distancing while still be able to move where ever you may. I need to evolve a shell of some sort. Be back after a million years for update.

@theshuman100 4 жыл бұрын

those victorian era skirts

@AllonKirtchik 4 жыл бұрын

Isn’t that just a car?

@spunkyspaz 4 жыл бұрын

Hamster balls for humans.

@adithyavraajkumar5923 4 жыл бұрын

@@spunkyspaz www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bristol247.com%2Fnews-and-features%2Fnews%2Fsocial-distancing-southville-style%2F&psig=AOvVaw0FfOrOx1QSRliaTf4Icdh3&ust=1591224710523000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCPDRqo-c5OkCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE

@JoaoGabriel-hk8ub 4 жыл бұрын

Do blankets work?

@spiercephotography 4 жыл бұрын

I want to be a Difflugia (if I wasn't a human), their shells are so pretty! Well arranged Squish? Blobby Organisms with a shell? I'm going to start referring to things that way cause I love it.

@NexxuSix 4 жыл бұрын

What often floors me about these videos is that just when I’m understanding how small these single organisms are, there is something many times smaller swimming by showing me just how much smaller things can get.

@itzmedb8290 4 жыл бұрын

wow, right as i sat down 10 minutes ago to eat my plate of chicken nuggets, yall upload the video. right on time for my dinner entertainment. thank you for teaching me about tiny bois while i munch on nuggies

@ayoungentomologist7163 4 жыл бұрын

I'm getting a microscope for my b day

@wilsonallen7831 2 жыл бұрын

I am learning volumes. Don’t ever stop. Thank you.

@a.j.kimball1240 4 жыл бұрын

I think a really cool episode me and many people might find cool is a video on the organisms you wouldnt expect to find in the microcosmos. Ive heard that some fish and insect larvae are microscopic as well. Would be interesting to see how they interact.

@MarketResearchReading114 4 жыл бұрын

I can relate to the amoeba for my interests and hobbies are like a great ocean and I blob into them like a bumbling amorphous pile of understanding.

@MarketResearchReading114 4 жыл бұрын

I also have a protective layer from UV light.

@Haamome 4 жыл бұрын

On top of how interesting your videos are. You sir have the most relaxing voice. Keep up the good work.

@alexwixom4599 4 жыл бұрын

Can you do an episode on scale? How much room do they have between the slides of glass. If I were a rotifer how big would the slide be to me, would a moss piglet be dog sized or dragon sized? That would be interesting.

@TheIkhsan7 4 жыл бұрын

(S)hell yeah!!! By the way, where is rotifer? I kinda miss him/her...

@mewnani 4 жыл бұрын

Busy doing some photobombing, I'd imagine.

@sumbuddy4088 4 жыл бұрын

Rotifer died from crossfire in a gang war, unfortunately.

@sujimtangerines 4 жыл бұрын

Lol, he's actually below you as I have the comments filtered!

@rachelneff5837 4 жыл бұрын

God i love this show, thank you for making it

@seaham3d695 2 жыл бұрын

Honestly this stuff is gold.

@astick5249 4 жыл бұрын

I still love the music and still want to know where to find it

@OMGitshimitis 4 жыл бұрын

It's all by Andrew Huang I think, I don't know where to find it but asking him on twitter might be a place to start? I agree it's awesome!

@Life_42 4 жыл бұрын

It's in the video description

@kf10147 4 жыл бұрын

It was available as a project for awesome perk in December. I will try to get you a link once they send it out!

@second0banana 4 жыл бұрын

@@kf10147 I am so excited for when this perk comes out!

@JaredHWood 4 жыл бұрын

This was a great episode. One of my favorites. Lot's of new, interesting information and imagery.

@microArc 3 жыл бұрын

i love when Hank starts these vids with that fat euglenoid beat. andrew huang did such a great job with these background tracks.

@jubb1984 4 жыл бұрын

So basically if you wanna leave something to remember you by, start gluing your shell together now! These might be the best times for it to xD

@user-gd5yt2gn6r 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your scientific resources.

@zrszrs2405 4 жыл бұрын

If there isn't a Silica Frustule on the next season of RuPaul's Drag Race, I quit

@maetos Жыл бұрын

How a unicellar organism manages to assemble those rather complex shells out of say, two or three thousand particles it gathers from the environment, selects carefully by its shapes and puts all those particles painstakingly together, is a feat which remains quite the mystery to me.

@GZxuanChannel-nx9vi 4 жыл бұрын

AMAZING Video, @Journey to the Microcosmos

@kayhalliday2676 4 жыл бұрын

Another Astounding production. Thank you .

@gailhowes9398 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you once again for a fascinating program !

@freedapeeple4049 3 жыл бұрын

This series ticks me off. At 65 years old, it's only after watching this series that I regret dropping out of high school biology class. lol ✌😎👍

@iksarguards 4 жыл бұрын

Digging the beats in this one

@ianmalkaviac 4 жыл бұрын

Its amazing how similar they are to macro organisms like snails, coral, slugs, hermit crabs, and decorator crabs.

@Bee-nw6df 4 жыл бұрын

1:21 donut amoeba 🍩

@gaby012192 4 жыл бұрын

Great ambience music this vid 🎶

@AlexandreBFK 4 жыл бұрын

Every time I see a cell dividing, I can’t help but to think: we are not only just all related. like the daughter cell and the mother cell can’t be distinguished, we‘re all still that first ever cell, just a few billion years and countless divisions later

@happy_amoeba 4 ай бұрын

Danggit, i was really hoping you'd mention the Paulinella genus of testate amoebas, with it's 3 photosynthetic members (Paulinella Chromatophora, Paulinella Longichromatophora, and Paulinella Micropora. There are other non-photosynthetic members though). Outside of the singular event that resulted in chloroplasts, it's the only known case of primary endosymbiosis with a photosynthetic endosymbiont!

@TheTwick 4 жыл бұрын

Are the testates found in the micro fossil record?

@parallellia1509 4 жыл бұрын

Great content.

@TheDivino21 4 жыл бұрын

Damn it Hank your voice is so soothing and relaxing.😲

@Guydude777 4 жыл бұрын

I was in dire need of some relaxing Microcosmos talk and you did not disappoint!

@gurufoxx 4 жыл бұрын

Wait...how does a testate amoeba make a little shell for itself without a brain or nervous system? How does it know HOW to do that? And why would it do that without a brain to have the thought about doing that in the first place? And following from that, how do you get reoccurring styles of tests when there is no brain or external communication to create the meme of a test shape or style? MIND BLOWN.

@kf10147 4 жыл бұрын

On the smallest scales consciousness isn't required for "decisions" they make a shell because of complex chemical reactions involving proteins that result in a shell. These reactions and proteins exist because of the dna that guides the building/maintenance of the cell. They have that dna bc that's what they are. Life on these scales is so fascinating bc it emerges from the rules of chemistry. If you want to hear more about these concepts I recommend kurzegesagt's videos on consciousness and emergence. They are very well produced and can help you explore these ideas more.

@clray123 4 жыл бұрын

@vexingcomos It's not just DNA. Watch video "What Bodies Think About" to see that the morphology of an organism can be modified without messing with its DNA. E.g. you can make a flatworm grow two heads by modifying some electrical fields in its cells. AND - that's the hammer news - the offspring of this worm will have two heads as well - the change is permanent. Or you can make an embryo of the worm develop into a different type of worm altogether.

@comicsansgreenkirby 4 жыл бұрын

There _has_ to be a series of Blu-rays of this. Everyone else did it.

@comicsansgreenkirby 4 жыл бұрын

What's next, David Attenborough does a voiceover?

@destroyerofteachers4477 4 жыл бұрын

nice music. i like.

@antonyslack1 4 жыл бұрын

What a great title

@informativt 4 жыл бұрын

The last shot is amazing. Would make an awesome zoom out (I know that is hard)

@MegaRudeBoy69 4 жыл бұрын

Noble Knights of the microcosm.

@psychachu 4 жыл бұрын

How many microbial shells would there have to be in a pile before we could see it with the naked eye?

@thestruggleisreal9626 3 жыл бұрын

Nature spent well over 2,000,000,000 years refining the cell. What single cells are, what they do, is far more complex and intriguing than what animals or plants do as a community of such cells.

@frost273 4 жыл бұрын

Listening about amoebas life gives me an existential crisis, because it's life seems to be more complicated then mine.

@bradxwx 3 жыл бұрын

some of these images look like abstract art

@Noughtgate 2 жыл бұрын

I love these titles; I cant put my finger on it but they're charming, lol.

@BaneRain 4 жыл бұрын

ephemerally vibin'

@maw9406 4 жыл бұрын

I was sitting on the toilet ans read that as “prostate amoebas”. My heart almost skipped a beat

@KerbalHub 4 жыл бұрын

Cancerous amoebas

@Slattery777 4 жыл бұрын

So cool

@JimmyStiffFingers Жыл бұрын

Would like to see some long form content like a documentary.

@Jop_pop 4 жыл бұрын

1:55 Gritty is a Flyer as well...

@sovendovah 4 жыл бұрын

This would have been perfect for a Zefrank video. He even talked about byirds.

@grumpybunny5910 4 жыл бұрын

Want a game of this! like spore.. But its just a better version of the first stage.

@Boris-ui8sk 4 жыл бұрын

Can you make a vid on bryozoa.

@Personnenenparle 4 жыл бұрын

Could difflugia use diamond for its shell?

@randywatson8347 4 жыл бұрын

I kinda wonder if most microbes are adapted to particular atmospheric pressure and gravity or not.

@CKM7VQ6W8A 4 жыл бұрын

Can’t get enough of those cute blobs 🦠

@hibouwolf571 4 жыл бұрын

Can we have a video about what a fossilized microbial mat might look like, and how to comprehend what we’re looking at?

@adarkerstormishere 3 жыл бұрын

"The universe is fine-tuned for humans!" "Huh... you don't say... let's test that by sending you and a colony of tardigrades to Mars. The world can watch live which species survives the first exposure to space outside of Earth's magnetosphere. Go get ready! Let's science!"

@savethehumanz9205 4 жыл бұрын

So it’s a microscopic snail. Neat

@dennisnashville7114 4 жыл бұрын

You guys should enter Nikon’s Small World competition.

@jakobraahauge7299 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this seductively beautiful journey into the infectiously intoxicating world of little lives and deaths - it stimulates me so to be given a peek into this floating world I otherwise can only fantasise about!

@chesthoIe 4 жыл бұрын

Will there be a test on this?

@Jessica-zh2ck Жыл бұрын

When I was a baby but big enough to be sneaky and stealthy, I would sneak out to the kitchen in the middle of the night and eat powdered coffee mate. I called this activity The Test.

@DominikJaniec 4 жыл бұрын

0:45 Where can I find a full piece of this amazing bit?

@loishawkey 4 жыл бұрын

Like a caddisfly. Holy wow Wowee.

@ivanfedak4517 4 жыл бұрын

You are cool... i wish you to mowe to new horizons...thank you fo videos you make...👍😎🤘

@BeaChapman 4 жыл бұрын

There was one orange amoeba that had a shell made of diatoms, how did that happen?

@marilynlucero9363 4 жыл бұрын

When I think of an Amoeba I think of Pokémon Uranium's 'Gellin'

@davideschiliro Жыл бұрын

7:30 Is that Arcella the Majora's Mask microbe? Is that my new favourite microbe of all time? I guess it is

@a52productions 4 жыл бұрын

Can you make the scale marker stretch and squish with the zoom? Or add some markings on it that do? The numbers by themselves are really hard to visualize, and I want to get an intuitive sense of how big things are.

@thea_kober 4 жыл бұрын

To visualize the numbers on the scale marker better I usually compare them to millimeters, like, 1 mm is 1000 micrometers, so 200 micrometers is 0,2 mm, 500 is half a millimeter, etc. (Idk if this was useful, i suck at explaining things sorry :v)

@drungarious 4 жыл бұрын

Am I the only one who wishes they could be a microorganism right now? Just mindlessly swimming along, consuming, not a care in the world or the ability to worry.

@gregwall6553 4 жыл бұрын

Lots of the red test amoeba are found in activated sludge

@ulalaFrugilega Жыл бұрын

There's an amoeba looking at me...

@JobvanderZwan 4 жыл бұрын

"... microbes, who often seem to be made up of well-arranged squish" That's the scientific term for it, btw

@moraine2442 4 жыл бұрын

Is this what shuckle is?

@Neceros 4 жыл бұрын

How do they decide which way to go?

@clray123 4 жыл бұрын

How do you?

@thisnicklldo 4 жыл бұрын

Good script on this one.

@ourochroma 4 жыл бұрын

Amoeba with Diatom Shell: *YOU CAN'T HANDLE THIS BLING!*

@cedarbobedar7223 4 жыл бұрын

Hey, kinda off-topic and might well go unseen at this point, but do y'all have any chemosynthetic bacteria? I heard they've been found in hotsprings, so I figured maybe that's a source but idk and keeping them alive would probably be significantly more complicated.. But it would be really cool to see one

@Ugo_Goglu 4 жыл бұрын

does the background music have a name?

@petergray2712 4 жыл бұрын

Difflugia: the Rococo Amoebas

@ElectricalExistence 3 жыл бұрын

Could these be the progenitors of snails and other shelled creatures?

@dianagibbs3550 3 жыл бұрын

Is it me or does arcella's shell look a bit honeycomb like? If I understand 'proteinaceous alveoli,' that implies that there are little bubbles or spheres of protein so a honeycomb arrangement would make sense...